Greetings!
In the last few weeks I have celebrated a couple of bath days in our family, visited a mega garden, written a bit, read a lot, and had some sort of low-level bug. The bug and bath days meant that writing was somewhat delayed. So my usual Tuesday post for paid subscribers, in which I either give a useful tip or delve behind the scenes (fantastic value for money, by the way) wasn’t written and published until Saturday. (Sorry.)
But enough of this persiflage! On with the newsletter which, for the above reasons, will be rather shorter than usual.
Terry
Reading
A post I enjoyed reading this week was this one about gales and roses, sort of:
I bought a book of Scottish short stories and a book of Welsh short stories. I’ve been enjoying them. It’s fascinating how they differ from each other, and from Irish and English stories. Such different cultures, but all under the same roof, so to speak. Here’s a picture of three books I’m currently reading:
From left to right, The Anomaly is by Herve Le Tellier, fourth president of the Oulipo. The Irish Short Stories book is great. I’ve already read How Words Get Good, which was sent to me for reviewing, but it’s packed with information so I’m going to read it again. I hope to publish my review here, in due course.
Writing
I’ve published another experiment in style and a behind the scenes look at a piece of memoir writing I did.
Visiting
Like I said, we visited a garden, so here are some pics which I hope you’ll enjoy:
I’m afraid that’s pretty much it for now. I’m hoping to write a behind-the-scenes post about how I organise the experiments in style, on Tuesday, and my reply to Rebecca’s letter, on Wednesday.
Thanks for reading.
Terry
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Short but sweet. Lovely garden pics.
Hope your low-level bug has now gone away. I had similar last week, but it seems to have cleared up now.
Lovely photos of a spectacular garden! Perfect for a dreary Monday morning. Thanks for taking the time to put that together, Terry! Now, about those bath photos...?